THE DROWSY CHAPERONE- Page 4

[Broadwaylady]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 4:47pm

I still want to get tixs for the show. I am going in to see Sweeney Todd the end of the month and I will get tixs for Drowsey Chaperone. Sorry, I love Sutton and she will make the show worthwhile. I saw her in Millie, which was good, and Little Woman, which was not, and she stole the show.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 5:18pm

I'm not a fan of the show, but Sutton is one of the best things in it. She's much fresher, winsome and funnier in this than she was in MILLIE, where I thought her charmless and strident. And she looks like a million dollars. And her "Show-Off" number is indescribable, but in a GOOD way.

Though as far as "stealing the show" goes, Sutton has some major competition from Beth Leavel.

Updated On: 4/7/06 at 05:18 PM

[TheEnchantedHunter]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 9:40pm

>>>Robert Frost, ad nauseum, told audiences, readers, and critics that "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was autobiographical--a remembrance of a young father taking solace in nature when he realized he couldn't afford to buy his kids Christmas presents and yet thousands of critics employing all manner of versimilitude declare it a poem about death and the longing for extinction. It apparently didn't matter at all that Frost said (particularly to a guy in the New Yorker)"Sorry. You just don't get it. It's not about death. It's about life."<<<

Did you know that you can sing STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING to the tune of HERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY? Try it!!!

Whose woods/these are/I think I know.
His house/is in/the village though;
He will/not see/me stopping here
To watch/his woods fill up with snow.
My lit-/tle horse/ must think it queer
To stop/without/a farmhouse near
Between/the woods/and frozen lake
The dark-/est evening of the year.

Ole!

And you can also sing AMAZING GRACE to the tune from GILLIGAN'S ISLAND. You remember:
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale
a tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
aboard this tiny ship, etc."

And a-one, and a-two....

Lawrence Welk
Strasburg, North Dakota

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/7/06 at 10:12pm

The names aren't funny.

Sincerely yours.

Zulu: Duchess of Names
Never Never Land

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/10/06 at 11:35pm

Saw it tonight. Laughed really hard, tried to take it for what it was, but ultimately conflicted as to whether I liked it.

For a comedy, it was hysterical. The book scenes were just delightful, really showing off the comedic skills of the cast. And Bob Martin was just a delight. While looking like the announcer the Lillian Verner game show on Madtv, he steals the show with his warmth, his asides, and his humanity. It was a delight to see the world through his eyes.

Regrettably, the score in question is ultimately forgettable, and the three strongest numbers - Show Off, I Am Adolfio and Stumble Along - work because the actors - really, major kudos to Danny Burstein, Georgia Engel and Sutton Foster - sell the songs like it's no one business. And the rest of the score, quite honestly, doesn't leave me humming any tune as I leave the theatre, as the "Man in Chair" would have me believe.

As a musical, it's weak, and it get buy because an impressive cast make magic out of the trifle they have to work with. As a comedy, it's fabulous farce with the strong cast's tongue firmly in cheek. As a whole though, it barely gets away with it.

PS Can someone please tell the yelping teenagers how extremely inappropriate it is to chatter about whenever Sutton comes on? And SQUEALING EXTREMELY LOUDLY when her numbers ended so that we couldn't hear the first lines that came right after? It was painful, just painful, an extreme nuisance and if there was an intermission, I would've given them a good talking to about the finer points of theatre etiquette.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:10am

I saw it in LA, and I probably won't bother to see it here in NY...the opening monologue was genius, "Show Off" was a great number, the cast was awesome, the experience was generally pleasant, but ultimately, who cares about the show REALLY? But I don't think it's a particularly dreadful time.


I dunno. It's CANADIAN :0)

[alli2]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:23am

I really loved the show. I wasn't expecting to after all the negative reviews I'd seen on here. My friends and I won lotto, so we were in the front row.

This was the best way that I've seen a musical "poke fun" at musicals. It didn't become stale at any point. The final song, "I Do, I Do in the Sky" didn't really do anything for me. The sets were great, and I really loved the costumes. Especially the ones that Sutton wore during "Show Off." As the "Man in Chair" said, this is just what a musical was supposed to do, take you into another world.

Sutton Foster was great as usual, though not really a lead. Though she did belt fantasitically and make it look effortless, which is one of the things I love about her. Bob Martin, credited as the "Man in Chair," totally stole the show for me and HE'S the reason I'd go back to see it again. The opening monologue was just brilliant. Sutton had a song or two but... they were no "Gimme Gimme" or "Astonishing."

I think this show has a really good chance at Best Book, the music, as many have said, might not be TONY worthy. Also, Barrett Foa and Gary Beach were in attendance tonight.

Updated On: 4/11/06 at 12:23 AM

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:39am

Should also mention, I also saw Brad Musgrove and his excellent coif a couple of rows ahead of me, and my companion saw Bryan Batt.

[neomystyk29]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:43am

Isn't it a shame that the forgettable music will get preserved on a CR but in all likelihood Bob Martin's monologue deliveries will be lost.

[Hawker]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:45am

There was nothing at all intriging in Woody Allen's movie within a movie, "The Purple Rose of Cairo" that would seduce the audience. Who cared about the triteness of coctail hours, clubhopping, and egyption excavations?

It was all about Mia Farrow's emotional involvement with a kind of movie that had ben made a 100 times before, was not very good, but had the power to help her escape the realities of the depression and an a busive spouse.

This seemingly does the same thing for MIC and TDC is his "Purple Rose".

That shouldn't be so complicated. The quality of the fictitious piece could have been "Citizen Cane" for all Allen cared. It wasn't about craft. It was about the power to really break down the fourth wall which is what TDC is also about.

[Hawker]

Posted: 4/11/06 at 12:49am

Absolutely brilliant observation.